Nokia Lumia 635

[gavroche]

I have just bought the above phone and don't know how to import my contact as the sim card from my old Samsung is not compatible.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I have just bought the above phone and don't know how to import my contact as the sim card from my old Samsung is not compatible.

If you've only got one contact can't you just type it in again?

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Surely you know your mum's number by heart now?

 

[classic33]

Can you copy all to phone in your old handset. Put the new sim card in there and then copy all to the new sim card.
Or did they only supply the micro sim!

 

[Doseone]

Be interested to know what you think of it, my son is after one for his birthday.

 

[Piemaster]

Never had a windows phone, but If your Samsung is an android and you have a gmail account is there not a gmail app you can download and then allow it to synch that way.

Edit: Just spoke to son, who has got same phone a month ago. All he did was sign into phone with his gmail account and his contacts synched via the cloud.

 

[Piemaster]

Be interested to know what you think of it, my son is after one for his birthday.

My son seems pretty happy with it, he wanted to have something to serve him at Uni. Apps are a bit on the ground but it works well with Office and Outlook as well as having some free cloud storage. Seems to be a pretty solid phone for utilitarian use, maybe not so much for game playing/entertainment.
Not sure about battery life,but he hasn't complained, and looking at reviews Windows phones seem to last better than Android.

 

[gavroche]

Done it all manually, took me ages. Still finding my way with it.

 

[gavroche]

just found out I could have done via Bluetooth! Oh well, too late now.

 

[John the Monkey]

My son seems pretty happy with it, he wanted to have something to serve him at Uni. Apps are a bit on the ground but it works well with Office and Outlook as well as having some free cloud storage. Seems to be a pretty solid phone for utilitarian use, maybe not so much for game playing/entertainment.
Not sure about battery life,but he hasn't complained, and looking at reviews Windows phones seem to last better than Android.

Mrs C and my eldest have Lumia 620s (the forerunner of the 635) - I'm *very* impressed - until the advent of the Moto G, there was nothing this good, at this price for Android, and the inclusion of Here Drive, and Here Maps (Nokia's mapping solution that allows offline mapping and navigation) in the Lumia phones is a brilliant feature.

Windows phone runs very nicely on the low end devices in the range (ime) and it's a good choice at the sort of prices these go for. I'm very tempted to get one to mess with myself, although I'm a bit too deeply into android & Google services to make the move to Windows Phone wholly.

 

[Piemaster]

Same with me really, into the google ecosphere. Just bought a Moto G (1st gen) and really impressed with it, so impressed went out a few days later for a Moto E for Mrs.Pm. She doesn't do much else than phone and text so adequate for her needs.

 

[DannyCFC]

Got a Lumia 920, not as many apps but the ones I like - Netflix, iPlayer etc - all work fine. There's also a Map My Ride app, which doesn't have as many features as the Android app, and an app called Cyclers which links to Strava. I like it - which is lucky, really, as I'm stuck with it.

 

[andyfraser]

My better half has the Lumia 720 with Windows Phone 8.1 and I'm impressed with it. I'm another one who's too into Google to give up Android. I love my Nexus 5. If I ever work out a Google escape plan I might go over to Windows Phone.

 

[marknotgeorge]

So what do you need from Google you can't get from Windows Phone? I get my Gmail account just fine on my 1020, and I've set the default search engine in the browser to Google.

 

[andyfraser]

Basically, all my data (email, contacts, docs, calendars, photos, music, etc) are in Google. I also use Google+ (yes, I'm the one). The Google apps for Android are excellent as you'd expect. The iOS equivalents are good but not quite there. Unlike Apple and Microsoft, Google are fairly platform agnostic. They seem to put as much effort in making sure everything's available in a web browser as they do into Android. Microsoft have got the idea and are following. Apple are still crap at online services.

In case Google start doing evil I do have an escape plan for migrating to Microsoft (Apple failed my tests). The free Word and Excel that you get with OneDrive are really good and I like my Outlook mail account so I could move my contacts and calendars across. I could migrate to Microsoft if I needed to but Google works for me and the easiest way to get the most from Google is Chrome and Android.